Okay guys here comes the solution. It was really relatively trivial. I decided to reinstall grub on my linux partition, so all I had to do was boot into 'linux rescue' off the cd, then 'chroot /mnt/sysimage' (just to be safe) and then simply run grub stage2 natively like so: #> grub grub#> setup (hd0,5) this reinstalled grub stage1 on the bootsector of hda6 (where my linux partition is). I then re-peeled the bootsector of /dev/hda6 and did a binary diff, it was different to my post-resizing bootsector, so I used this new peeled bootsector to chain load GRUB from the WIN2k boot loader, and all was well. Thanks for all your help -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list